Friedhelm Brusniak

Friedhelm Brusniak (born October 1, 1952 in Korbach , Waldeck ) is a German music teacher .

Life

Brusniak attended the humanistic branch of the old state school in Korbach . After graduating from high school, he studied school music from 1971 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . His teachers were Branka Musulin and Poldi Mildner (piano), Richard Rudolf Klein (composition) and Helmuth Rilling (choir director). At the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main he studied musicology with Lothar Hoffmann-inheritance law and Ludwig Finscher as well as history. In 1975/77 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 1980 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He completed his legal clerkship at the Kassel I study seminar (Gymnasium Bad Arolsen). After the second state examination (1980) he was from 1981 to 1988 academic advisor at the chair of musicology at the University of Augsburg ( Franz Krautwurst ). In 1988/89 he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation . He then worked as a lecturer, teacher, senior teacher and deputy professor for music education at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (1988–1999) and at the Heidelberg University of Education (1994/95).

He completed his habilitation in musicology at the University of Augsburg in 1998 and was appointed private lecturer . In 1999, he followed the call of the chair of music education and didactics of music education at the University of Würzburg , where he in 2004 for the first professor of music education was appointed. From 1989 to 1999 he built the Singer Museum of the Franconian Singers Association in Feuchtwangen (successor institute of the former German Singer Museum in Nuremberg). Since 2010 he has been the Scientific Director of the Foundation for the Documentation and Research Center of the German Choir. From 2010 to 2012 he was the project manager for “German Choirs” ( German Choir Association ). From 2011 to 2015 he was visiting professor at the Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku . He retired on April 1, 2019. Since 2018 he has been President of the Franconian Singing Association.

Honors

• Silver Mozart Medal from the Mozarteum Foundation (2003)
• Award from the Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku (2015)

Honorary positions

• Musicological advisor to the Arolser Barock-Festspiele (1986-2003)
• President of the German Mozart Society (1994–2002)
• Liaison professor of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst for the University of Würzburg (2004–2011),
• Liaison lecturer at the Bavarian Elite Academy (2011-2019)
• University Advisory Board of the Evangelical Student Community (ESG) Würzburg (2012-2018)
• Chairman of the working group of music didactics at Bavarian music colleges and universities (2005–2007)
• Chairman of the Hermann Zilcher Society (HZG, 2009–2013)
• Chairman of the International Leo Kestenberg Society (since 2012)
• Scientific director of the Foundation for the Documentation and Research Center of the German Choir (2010-2018)
• Scientific Director of the Research Center for German Choirs at the University of Würzburg (since 2018)
• President of the Franconian Singers Association (FSB, since 2018)

literature

• Brusniak, Friedhelm , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 69-71.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedhelm Brusniak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Font directory
• Pomeranian Academy in Slupsk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Conrad Rein (approx. 1475–1522), schoolmaster and composer .
2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Beginnings of the lay choir in Bavarian Swabia. Music and social history studies .
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Brusniak (JMU) ( Memento of the original dated May 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ The Silver Mozart Medal (Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg) ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ First award to visiting professor from abroad
6. ^ German Music Council
7. ↑ IKG